Is this still true? Do you want to supply a patch for this? - vin Jason> I'm not able to build XEmacs on Redhat Linux 6.1 for sparc due to some Jason> problems with the configure script. This goes for the latest 21.2 Jason> beta as well as 21.1.9. `sed' is having trouble with some of the Jason> lines in conftest.s2 and conftest.frag. sed on this machine is GNU Jason> sed version 3.02. Jason> Has anyone else seen this problem? The output below is what I see Jason> at the end of ./configure just after Installation is written out. Jason> The result is that all the Makefiles end up as empty files. Jason> creating ./config.status Jason> creating Makefile.in Jason> sed: file conftest.s2 line 35: Unknown command: `` Jason> creating lib-src/Makefile.in Jason> sed: file conftest.s2 line 35: Unknown command: `` Jason> creating lwlib/Makefile.in Jason> sed: file conftest.s2 line 35: Unknown command: `` Jason> creating src/Makefile.in Jason> sed: file conftest.s2 line 35: Unknown command: `` Jason> creating src/paths.h Jason> sed: file conftest.s2 line 35: Unknown command: `` Jason> creating lib-src/config.values Jason> sed: file conftest.s2 line 35: Unknown command: `` Jason> creating lib-src/ellcc.h Jason> sed: file conftest.s2 line 35: Unknown command: `` Jason> creating src/config.h Jason> sed: file conftest.frag line 1: Unknown command: ``%'' Jason> creating lwlib/config.h Jason> sed: file conftest.frag line 1: Unknown command: ``%'' Jason> creating ./Makefile Jason> creating ./GNUmakefile Jason> creating lib-src/Makefile Jason> creating lib-src/GNUmakefile Jason> creating lwlib/Makefile Jason> creating lwlib/GNUmakefile Jason> creating src/Makefile Jason> creating src/GNUmakefile Jason> % ls -l Makefile lib-src/Makefile lwlib/Makefile src/Makefile Jason> -r--r--r-- 1 jason wheel 0 Feb 19 23:31 Makefile Jason> -r--r--r-- 1 jason wheel 0 Feb 19 23:31 lib-src/Makefile Jason> -r--r--r-- 1 jason wheel 0 Feb 19 23:31 lwlib/Makefile Jason> -r--r--r-- 1 jason wheel 0 Feb 19 23:31 src/Makefile